The Meaning Of Life In Henry David Thoreau's Walden

Walden book is about a man who lives in nature and spend two years in Walden Pond near to Concord, Massachusetts. The work is about personal independence, social experiment, journal of moral discovery, and trying to discover who you are. When Thoreau went to live in the woods he hoped that he would understand more about society through his own observation. His goal was also simple living, it promotes living simply and refraining from luxury so we can see that luxury was not important for him by he lived in a small wood house, and not requiring any aid, support, for survive. He spends his afternoons, and evenings by reading ,and walking by countryside. He oftenly extreme his own freedom with the prison of others who devote their lives material prosperity.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep

and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion” page 129 chapter 2 Where I lived, and What I Lived For.
In this quote thoreau spent two years at Walden Pond without any support of anybody.

This quote is an explanation of an chapter, Where I lived and What I Lived For, it is about meaning of life and the purpose of humans to live. The requisite facts of life he is saying that main necessities of life food ,shelter, and core of human existence. He fear and he do not want to die without living. His understanding of dieing that “he had not lived”. Living is not just about biological functioning but also inner adminstration. if a person live but do not do anything for his life, if he did not educated himself, if he did not help other people, this is means that the person did not live he just breathed air in and out. He wishes to live deliberately he wishes to live simple life, independently, thoughtfully, depend to his own consultation but no one

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